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1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-291) and index. |
| Contents |
The design of Mississippian towns / R. Barry Lewis, Charles Stout, and Cameron B. Wesson -- Town structure at the edge of the Mississippian world / Claudine Payne and John F. Scarry -- The nature of Mississippian towns in Georgia: the King site example / David J. Hally and Hypatia Kelly -- Mississippian towns in the eastern Tennessee valley / Gerald F. Schroedl -- Mississippian sacred landscapes: the view from Alabama / Cameron B. Wesson -- Mississippi period mound groups and communities in the lower Mississippi valley / Tristram R. Kidder -- Mississippian towns in Kentucky / Charles Stout and R. Barry Lewis -- Towns along the lower Ohio / Jon Muller -- The Mississippian town plan and cultural landscape of Cahokia, Illinois / Scott J. Demel and Robert L. Hall -- The town as metaphor / R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our lives and projects our distinctive regional and ethnic identities to the world around us. Archaeology and architecture find common theoretical ground in their perspectives on the homes, spaces, and communities that people create for themselves. In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippian towns and mound centers of the eastern United States. The diverse Mississippian societies, which existed between A.D. 900 and 1700, created some of the largest and most complex Native American archaeological sites in the United States. The dominant architectural feature shared by these communities was one or more large plazas, each of which was often flanked by buildings set on platform mounds. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mississippian culture.
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Mississippian culture. |
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Mississippian architecture.
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Mississippian architecture. |
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Urban Indians -- North America -- Southern States.
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Urban Indians -- North America -- Mississippi River Valley.
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Sacred space -- Southern States.
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Sacred space. |
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Southern States. |
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Sacred space -- Mississippi River Valley.
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Mississippi River Valley. |
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Southern States -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities.
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Electronic books.
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Lewis, R. Barry.
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Stout, Charles B.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mississippian towns and sacred spaces. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1998 0817309470 (DLC) 98019772 (OCoLC)39189828 |
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0585342458 (electronic book) |
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9780585342450 (electronic book) |
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9780817384685 (e-book) |
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0817384685 (e-book) |
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0817309470 |
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9780817309473 |
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